The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-09-23

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could be had next term.
Citing the case and its origin, Judge Ma
grader, speaking for himself and the court,
says in substance, quoting much of the testi-
mOny:
About the LIST of May, 1886, the workingmen
OF Chicago and other industrial centers were
generally worked up on the evidence, which
showed that different kinds of bombs were
thrown, and tine mode Of construction and also
OF the mode Of their structure, and a gaspipe
bonb Is such as an unskilled laborer would use.
Inc round bombs are more expensive and diff
cult TO handle, so the court recites the record in
describing the different kinds Of that destruc-
tIon by outside influence, and greatly excited
all workingmen, especially as to the eight
hour movements. In the midst OF
this excitement a meeting was held May
a, 1856, at the Haymarket, and it was addressed
by the defendants, Spies, Parsons and FIelden.
and while the latter was making his closing
speech, at some time between 10 and IL o'clock
IN the evening, several companies of policemen,
numbering IS0, marched into the crowd from
their station on Desplaiues street and ordered
the meeting stopped. AS soon as the order was
given some one threw a bomb 1t is conceded
Vltdb lulC VI Iue COuNlCIEu Threw INe DOIlD. 1l6
plaintiffs in error are charged with being Access
series before the fact. There are sixty-eight
counts in The indictment, and these charge the
eight defendants with being present and abet-
ting TO, and some Of them say that they
advised and encouraged these lawless acts.
Ii the defendants advised and encouraged, aided
or anetted In the killing Of the policemen, there
fore they are as guilty as If they had taken these
mems lives with their own hands. Ii any Of
them stood by and saw or aided in the throwing
of the fatal bomb, each Of the aiders and abettors
are az rn1ItV as him Ehn did tho fnto1 load If
they. combined TO accomplish sucn murder by
concerted action the ordinary law of conspiracy
Is applicable. and the acts and declarations Of
one OF them, done in furtherance of the common
design, are, in ontemplatton of law. the acts
ana declarations of ALL This prosecution, how
ever, Is not for conspiracy as a substantive
crime. IL Is charged thas the defendants were
united and had conspired to do this awful work
and that their common design was fulfilled in
their terrible plot, and the opinion shows that
whhe not perhaps a combination of the same
culprits a desire on the several parts and pur-
poses to accomplish the same ends.
H QUESTIONS PRESENTED
are: Did the defendants have q common pur-
pose or design TO murder these police? Did they
combine for that purpose, and was the result Of
such combination dea3h to men who were the
guardians OF the law2 Who made tho bomb
that killed Degen? The bomb was round aud
was as big as a base ball, says a competent wit
ness, and a witness says: Il saw the bomb and
knew it was a round bomb" The court follows
IN the description of the various bombs in use
VI A1SNh ~ hhUlCilinIA duu bClCulASNHa
mentioning four different varieties of these
destructive compounds, and concluding that
these, or the most deadly of them were made
by Louis Iingg, judging from what hal been
found in his possession and his acquaintance
with William Seliger, who was a German car-
penter and made his appearance in Chicago in
1850, and who seemed to be an expert in bomb
making, and in March, 1886, brought dynamite
t4ere. The court quote some experiments made
by these gentlemen In their peculiar trade, all
OF which 60 to show that these Two gentlemen
were experts in their business. The evidence
shows tina; these two men, April 30, 1856, the
Friday before the haymarket meeting, met, and
Lingg brought to Seliger's house a large wooden
box, three feet long and from sixteen to eighteen
inches high, and that it contained dynamite,
and that he tLingg) spent that evening in filing
dynsmite into gas pipe and globular shells,
using a fiat piece OF wood, which he had made
for that purpose, and he was also assisted by
a number OF persons, and Seliger among
them Upwards of fifty bombs were
finished chat afternoon, and it appears to have
been continued till the very evening OF the
Haymarket meeting. The record goes on inn
plicating others, especially one Heebner, who
was seen working at some coil fuse, and LingR,
Seliger, Tkalen and Herman were frequently
engaged in casting and melting In Seliger's
kitchen. Pieces of shells made by Lingg were
subjected to chemical analysis, and were found
To be composed of a certain percentage Of tin
and the remainder of lead and antimony. iron
and zinc, and out of the four bombs examined
the percentage varied but little. and the pieces
taken from Degen's body and those found at
Lhnggs after his arrest were of the same COM
position. The evidence goes on to further COM
plicate Linggs connection with this terrible
affair so closely that escape for him would be
impossible. After fastening the evidence upon
Lingg's guilt the court asks the question:
Why DID LISGG MAXI THE BOMB
which killed began? To answer this it be-
comes necessary to examine the character OF the
association with which these defendants were
connected, and its aims. There was no question
about this organization, nor little about its OBJ
jects. Its platform was published by the Alarm
and the Arbeiter Zeitung. The court quoted
many familiar extracts from that sheet. Among
them are the peculiar ideas of the communists,
the adjustment OF titles to lands and q sort OF
freedom which Is far beyond or ages in the rear
et naaae=i s.Tiiiisatton, and in someor these arti-
Giles the charge il made that the state, the
churches, the schools and the press are
in the pay and under the sway OF the
capitalist, and that the laborers must overthrow
these powers by physical strength. 1t is adj
mitted, and even positively asserted, that such
a thing as right OF property is not only a myth,
but a great wrong TO those who by laziness and
other faults have nevrr earned property, or by
their want Of thrift cannot keep such as they
may have had. This association sabyerts ali
law. These men should read our constitution
aud laws, and then they Will find that they are
that none Will feel il. There was another news
paper called the Alarm, and defendant
and 1t was under the management
OF Engel and Others Of these defendants. The
court projected to connect the other felonies in
the case. for Instance, that these movens were
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c-omnuniss!c meetings in Chicago, and that they
were la person and were always pronounced
followers ofthe red flag. Evidence was given
that there wero twenty-five to thirty labor
unions in Chicago at that time. embracing q
membership of from fifteen thousandto sixteen
thousand A large majority Of these men were
honest, industrious men, working daily
for their daily bread, well meaning
men ami had no thought OF anarchy
or any Of is hateful doctrines. The assemblage
for any ordinary purpose would have been law
full, but iE was conducted as an unlawful assem-
1 hlapo even pfior ia ~ H. apsse4.- -1aa3tss -.
the group and was a violation OF the military
laws Of Illinois. Each CT these defendants will
fully and maliciously violated the laws OF the
State Of Illinois aud they shall suffer the ex-
treme penalty hxed by this court OF Cook county
on the day previously stated. As specimens OF
I weapons by which deprayed men or men with
no heart could use against their fellow creatures
nothing III modern times can approach the ex-
quisite means devised by these anarchists. and
tncv seemed to have mkde n study of that awful
purpose. The court very carefully explains The
law as ~ conspiracy In ali its phases, and quotes